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fiTh" P:lv T?r H-c'Fridav. Aurust 29, Ifino "sX . w- - i GEOSCt SlIADSpui, Editor; - ' Djnita James, Matuiginx Editor Brad Kutko'A', Associate Editor Thomas Jlssiman, Associate Editor Karen Rowley, News Editor Pam KELLEY, University Editor Martha Wagconer, City Editor Jim Hummel, Suite and Natioml Editor Bill Fields, Sports Editor Mask Murxell, Features Editor Laura Elliott, Arts Editor Scott Sharpe, Photography Editor Melanie Sill, IVederJer Editor X N ' r P I St 1 tiwr of editorial freedom J ininoi 'incorivciiieiicc Whenever a society experiences a national emergency, millions of people make sacrifices. A soldier may give his life. A mother may buy only the essentials. Society may demand that individuals suffer some inconveniences, such as conserving food and resources and sharing excess with those less fortunate. 19S0 also is a year of sacrifice. The United States is not involved in a war with another country, and it does not wallow in the depths of a deep depression. But another kind of war rages on the highways each day. This particular war is unique because each of us is our own enemy. When we get into an automobile, we literally risk our lives. This somber realization weighs heavy this week. Two Carolina students lost their lives recently in auto accidents. We cannot express the pain friends and family felt; we can only implore students heading to beaches, homes or mountains this Labor Day weekend to exercise caution on the highway. The North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center reported recently that the fatality rate in the state has dropped substantially since 1965. Had the death rate stayed trie same during this period 10,000 more lives would have been lost in automobile accidents. Highway Patrol officials predict 19 people will be killed on North Carolina highways this weekend. This is where the sacrifice comes in. Given the potential gain a human life we don't consider a few minor inconveniences out of order. The 55 mph speed limit, if obeyed, might allow a driver the split second of reaction time he needs to avoid another car. Drinking may be fun, but driving afterwards endangers yourself and many others. The 15 minutes you might save by passing a car on a hill or curve becomes incredibly irrelevant if you never get home. Forgive us for being morbid, but the deaths occurring every day on' the roads of this country are a useless, senseless waste of human life unparalleled by even this country's most tragic wars. Life, with all its hassles, is worth experiencing. Don't risk it needlessly. Summer blues . By LYNN CASEY . The Campus Governing Council's tur of war with student activities fees durir.3 the budget hearings last spring proved two things. First, a student fee increase is needed if the CGC is to continue funding organizations at their present levels. Second, the current budgeting procedures need to be revamped or the council will continue to appropriate students' money in an inefficient manner. - " Cynthia Currin, speaker of the CGC, has said she will recommend that the council offer a referendum to increase student activities fees. . In the past 25 years, the student body has voted to increase these fees only once. The increase in 1977 was $2.50 per semester. Undergraduates now. . pay $15.25 per semester and graduate students pay $13.50. . This spring, student organizations requested funds totaling twice ' the amount the CGC could appropriate. Not every new program cr service a student group creates can be funded, nor should it be. But with inflation and rising costs, organizations are finding it hard to maintain their current services. Cathy Robinson, editor of the Yackety Yack, said the yearbook could expect a 20 percent cost increase across the board.' The CGC, however, could not increase its appropriations to the Yack. Robinson now says that if the Yack cannot make up the cost difference in sales, grants and gifts, the book will decrease in size. Locally The Student Consumer Action Union has already made decisions not to publish some of their handbooks this year, SCAU Chairperson Sharon Parker said. . . But inflation was not the only culprit during those exhausting budget hearings. The process itself encouraged hasty, poor decisions. Currin has Going' proposed that a committee review the whole budget hearings. To begin with, the CGC had been in office only three weeks before beginning its voyage into a financial unknown. The first two weeks of the process went very well. The CGC Student Affairs Committee met with each of more than 30 organizations applying for funding. The committee carefully evaluated each of the organization's, services and programs. The next week the CGC Finance Committee met. Supposedly working from the Student Affairs evaluation report, it proposed appropriations to the various organizations. A major breakdown began at this point. Finance Committee members frequently ignored the Student Affairs :-tv:3 ct tin Aprw's CCD l-dzil t ...in ths end, not enough time or report and at other times misinterpreted it. By the time the Finance Committee "had finished with the Budget Bill, most organizations were disappointed with 'their proposed allocations because they did not understand the Finance Committee's faulty rationale or lack of consistency. Lobbying CGC members occupied the organizations during the two days preceding the full CGC's vote on the budget bill. The full session lasted all night. It was full of amendments, arguments and, finally by 7 a.m., apathy. By the end of the three-week process, the three University foreign student exchange programs and the Carolina -Quarterly were among the organizations that received no funding. The vote on money the Gottin?en Exchanges funding was 9 to 4 against with six abstentions. "Having been through-the budgetary process, I would agree fees need to be increased," SCAU Chairperson Parker said, "but not if the budget process did not change. "Saying a referendum is going to solve our problems is terribly naive, and 1 would fight against it as hard as I could if that was the only reason," she said. Undoubtedly, a student fee increase is needed. But until the entire budgeting process is improved, the CGC will continue to appropriate funds haphazardly and those all-night sessions will drat on for years. Lynn Casey, a senior journalism major from Kinston, is editorial assistant for The Dally Tar Heel. She covered the CGC during the budget hearings. Labor -ID my lome-tortne weekend can- Be trau off o There's something about going to movies. The lights go down, the music .starts, up and the popcorn always gets saltier as you get to the bottom of the box. The previews begin and you know that trie whole movie is still to come, like that long summer vacation that is not supposed to end. Then a lion roars or a mountain with a cloud nearby flashes onto the screen and the movie starts a sports car speeding along the cliffs near Malibu or a teach party on theunes-ofMarthas Vineyard. The Latin jazz in the background picks up. It's all supposed to work, but for some reason just about every movie this summer has not quite clicked. The Empire Strikes Back was a success, but even so, it was the second part in a series and lacked the complete surprise and originality of Star Wars. John Travolta did some more dancing in Urban Cowboy but without the drama and fun of Saturday Night Fever. And then they brought back Close Encounters of the Third Kind and told us that it had been fixed. The people in Hollywood are trying to sell movies that just do not ring trueOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather and even The Sting seem like pictures from an ancient photo album. And although the relationship of actors and actresses with their producers has completely changed in the past 30 years, the Travoltas and Fondas cannot hold their own with the Bogarts and Bergmans. Deciding to go to the movies used to be a good idea but more and more these days a search for something worth seeing winds up a failure. Movies can pick you up out of your seat and take you into another world. They can make you want to walk back to your room afterwards and just think the whole thing through one more time. They can make you want to stand up at the end and shout out how insulting and irritating they are. And most of all, if they are really good, they can .make a person question and reconsider his experiences something that the recent vapid pieces never even attempt. In the '303 people went to the movies to get away from it all, in the 'COs the movies espoused social causes, but now in the 0s there is only a vacuum. The movies this summer never quite became serious enough; they brushed at a truth but none achieved it. They say that movies arc only a reflection of the times. If that is so, then what does this past summer reveal about our time. The classics, those movies that brought everything together, are scarcer these days. Instead of Bogie walking into the mist, we're bombarded by John Beiushi spitting food and Bill Murray burping beer. This past summer perhaps gave us the movie industry at its worst. With any luck, this retreat into mediocrity will cease in the near future; otherwise the shrunken lines in front of the movie theaters will beccme permanent- excent on those occasions when a classic is back in town. AjL:..-! ltiz:.: LC'zrti TJina RiLtca, John Roysaer, Amy Sharp I;: .!;-;!. :a I'-'-n Terry Car.eroa I . .:..! A- ' '.. !.- E::r.. if. l)r-n Cc:?y. V..:. Duihan N.-s V Tci Arr, 1! Uj An Jrr.-s, K;.:lt:.. ; l.c-;. Art Peter. T-.'-y a- J l". i I - c.v; Jrrc$ A';-'-. 'rf, ' urt l'.' U-.J:r ci :, r. I :rs, r ' "i I).- S, Lr.ry IWli. A- : D.-r.n. let N.::'..f L'isoa. ; C ' K. fi 1 , 1, C;'..$ i: :r.'-,, DS.cr il.rh, C-'i jArrctt. I) J " . J...i 5 i., - i tlzxy, hi kf M.ILni, r.i.Ul Perry, l;.:2 I . '. J ' -il ..'j, V ' ' ;.r y.r.: if -s. A' if ".A, U.l ry tabr, t:...Jli :t II.. s'.. ;C..fV.: i.C. , C -J.rt.::tr. ! . . : r.. 1 l : ti' .:;C..'.-Jl 't - . .V r- .iC:"i!j, Jv'i D.ev, -.ff, J ' xl. .C :.V. " ,,C -yf!. , (;..:.,;v: .1.1:. JjJU.tcruon By DA VID POOLE When I was a freshman, I hated the seniors who swaggered around telling me things I had no desire whatsoever to know. Who cares if Tappa Kegga Brew has the best gator mixers? I wanted some practical advice that I could use to make my four year reprieve from the real world as unchallenging and restful as possible. I didn't need a guy who'd been here for two termsNixon's and Ford's to tell me to avoid 8 o'clock classes. I've hated them since third grade. Now, since I am a senior and therefore much older and wiser, I feel I have an obligation to this year's freshman class to warn them of something for which I was totally unprepared back in September 1977. Monday is Labor Day and almost every freshman who lives within driving distance will return home for the long weekend. Be ready, for this weekend might just make. or break your college career. The class of 1934 has endured the toughest two weeks of college. First, there was Orientation, a five-day funfest of placement tests, registration, shag lessons and exhaustion. If you can honestly say you made it through that week without forgetting something major or losing something 1 . v... i. : f i I - ''. C .' t- J iXr.r. JlamU, tJL.ui l-Uit critical, you have UNC licked. Those who survive Orientation then have to deal with the first week of classes. 1 blanched when I got my first syllabus and saw the reading assignment for the first week. I hadn't read that many pages in my entire senior year of high school. Visions of working in a textile mill and playing slow-pitch softball for the company team for the next 40 years flashed before me, I wished I had gone to Western Carolina. Add to all of that the culture shock that accompanies the first prolonged visit to Chapel Hill. Freshmen are in the middle of a pretty rough time right now. So the University, in all of its cruel genius, decided to put those two weeks right before Labor Day and then give the freshmen a holiday. It will begin as soon as you walk in the door, folks, and there is no escape. From every nook and cranny of the planet, they will come and the pressure will be unbearable. They all will want to hear an answer to that most searing of all questions. "How do you like Carolina?" Trust me, your first reaction will be an almost irresistible urge to cringe. Maybe not the first time you're asked, but soon. You see, everybody will want to know. It came to me when I was in the situation that I should have sent out press releases. It would have saved a whole lot of time. Before you answer, think about who is asking and why they want to know. If ycur dad asks, and you say that you hate school, he's likely to ask you why the hell he's paying through the nose to send you to some place you hate. A grandmother will be concerned and wonder if you're eating enough. Your high school chums will be sure to point out all the fun stuff you're missing back home. Take heart. In three months, maybe less, those same high school buddies will be begging you to get them into a Carolina basketball game. Your father will want to know if you're majoring in Troll's. Your grandmother will ask you how you managed to gain 15 pounds on PTA pizza. So, while you're riding to Fayettcville or Charlotte or Greensboro cr Danville, think up something nice to say to your relatives. "I'm seeing a whole different world," or "I'm meeting a lot of new people" will do nicely. And, while I'm corning off sage and adviserly (if that's a word), let me offer you one other bit of advice from a senior who, as they say, has been around. Never take advice from a senior. David Poole, a condescending senior journalism major from Gastonia, is assistant sports editor for The Daily Tcr I led. Draws no oupport Ti ti fr tr tf 77 1 1 11 J DF Ai A Tf U U By WILLIAM DURHAM John B. Andersen's campaign for president has at no point been easy. Ills popularity, at 23 percent in June, hzs slowly eroded to around 12 percent. He desperately needs to pick up momentum. When he chore Patrick J. Lueey to be his vice preslientiil running rr-.i'z hit Monday, Anderson wis rr.:l:.2 a lost dltch attempt to salve;; him;df ts a However, the che'ee cf the fcrrr.er Democratic governor cf WUccaiia is but a minor plus for Anderson. Ideally, he would have attracted a powerful, well-known candidate Lke Sen. Edward Kennedy, with whom he farted briefly. But a lack cf political punch has hurt Anderson's ability to lure such prospective running mates to him. Lucey, however, as a life'ons liberal Democrat, - will change Anderson's status for the crucial months ahead. For the upcoming event upon which Anderson's future drpendi is the ccntroveniil debate, to he sponsored by the Le::ue cf Vc-:rn Vc:::$. At Laroo labeled too minor a candidate for media consideration. On the ether hand, if he is invited to take part in the debate, it wiil be proof that someone, somewhere, considers him to be cf some importance. To be cn national television face-to-face with Carter end Ronald Reean will rahe hi stature significantly. And u his stature ri'es, perctnta- pc!-ts enact te far behind. to c: ty choc: -' t ' the V. 'just rson L-other Repulllcan moid in which President Jimmy Carter his been determined to Ui-'"y, the c! cl;i cf 4 I-.-'. It and -Lucey with' - the hit -roejef tr.i his choice for vice present, Curtis Lemay. In 1S:3 former A?: ami Covrrncr Wallace ran as an Arnertcn Independent, a far-rieht win- party, ty :,) pre- identic cand far to the fi;M i Mmtrlf. W; trym to cr: t: ; V: m at t cr.oOi.n ixmzy r.e a ot.e t r.. i.e mere po!i:ica! cf-ut ti i J I t.cey, t e-.wr.la forr :.! t rs th: 1 H Cc . 3 fr; cry. II :i: a man at Ie::.i ai 1 1 'in, e ci ci the n. is cf I.v;;;y to him seme ceer.:!. the ciectcrate, thus cr I!cv.eert L?::ty b:m t;.t di:enfrenchi-.e.i f V- 9 . I...-.'-... uirihis sta: cf r . M with h t L. "i r,o cne , uho ' V t i: 'y. 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